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hifiguy

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19. So far, every appeals court has struck the anti-equality laws down.

Reply to Scuba (Reply #18)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 12:41 PM

Oct 2014

There's no conflict among the Courts of Appeal, which is a very significant thumb on the scales when the SCOTUS decides to take a case. It also leaves those CofA decisions as the leading opinions on the subject, and that is a good thing.

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